This technical report describes the process of implementing a testbed, which was used in [1]
to experimentally evaluate the performance of FAST under typical 'edge of …

There is strong evidence that the efficiency of the Internet is limited by its existing TCP
congestion control system. A replacement, FAST, has been shown to improve performance …

The number of broadband cable access subscribers in the United States is rapidly
approaching 30 million. However there is very little research that has evaluated TCP/IP in …

Since the first community antenna television (CATV) system was deployed in 1948, cable
technology has advanced at an astounding rate. Today, multiple service providers (MSOs) …

A number of broadband access solutions have been developed in the recent years to
provide high speed Internet access to the residential users or the? last-mile?. Some of the …

Hybrid Fiber-Coax based CATV networks have the potential for two-way data services. Such
network providers are presently re-inventing the CATV network to provide Internet access …

Motivated by the phenomenal growth of the Internet in recent years, a number of cable
operators are in the process of upgrading their cable networks to offer data services to …

Abstract Industry standard Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS™)
cable modems provide end users with an always-on, broadband connection to the Internet …

This paper studies the impact of the data-over-cable service interface specification
(DOCSIS) media-access control (MAC) protocol on the performance of the transmission …

The deployment of data-over-cable broadband Internet access continues to unfold
throughout the world. While there are competing technologies, the Data over Cable …